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FTC accuse Microsoft of breaking promise not to raise Game Pass prices after Activision Blizzard deal
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Oh but they promised! Darn. If only there was some way to regulate corporations.
The FTC sent an angry letter, that will surely stop them.
It was a pinky promise! You can't break a pinky promise!
Ah yes, a pinky promise. An unbreakable legal agreement between nobles.
It's called the Sherman Antitrust Act, and it's why this promise was made and why the FTC cares about it now.
But DO they really care about it? Or is this just to placate the plebs again?
I'll know they care when they actually manage to do something about it.
This FTC is incredibly aggressive. Lina khan is the head, a person who made waves in academia by basically redefining antitrust laws in the digital age, with a specific animus for Amazon. Shes led the FTC teeth forward:
I dunno. I was mostly just trying to explain why the federal government might care about video game pricing at all.
Isn't this exactly what Chevron Deference was about? I don't know how clearly defined the law actually is, but this seems like a prime case for the rubber stamp SCOTUS to jump on and say "actually according to a pig shit farmer from 9500bc the law was meant to mean that monopoly power is awesome."